Our safest reliance for financial efficiency and independence has, on the contrary, been found to consist in ample resources unencumbered with debt...

Thus believing, it has been my purpose to secure to the whole people and to every member of the Confederacy, by general, salutary, and equal laws alone, the benefit of those republican institutions which it was the end and aim of the…

I transmit herewith, in reply to the resolution of the Senate of the 11th March last, a report from the Secretary of War

I transmit, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 12th of March last, a communication of the Secretary of War, accompanied by such information as could be obtained in relation to the military and naval preparations of the British…

I lay before you, for your consideration, a treaty of commerce and navigation between the United States of America and His Majesty the King of Hanover.

SIR: I transmit a communication from the Secretary of the Navy, suggesting that an appropriation of $50,000 be made by Congress to meet claims of navy pensioners, payable on the 1st of July next, reimbursable by a transfer of stocks…

I communicate to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, with documents, containing the information requested by their resolution of the 26th of May last.

I herewith submit a report from the Secretary of the Treasury, in relation to certain lands falling within the Chickasaw cession which have been sold at Chocchuma and Columbus, in Mississippi, and invite the attention of Congress to the…

In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 30th December, 1839.

I communicate the report of the Secretary of War, containing the information called for by that resolution as far as it relates to the Department under his charge.

I deem it my duty to lay the proposition before Congress for such disposition as they may think fit to make of it

To the House of Representatives of the United States: I transmit the report of the Secretary of War furnishing a statement of the amounts paid to persons concerned in negotiating Indian treaties since 1829, etc., which completes the…

Relating to the sale or exchange of Government drafts, etc.

I herewith submit a report from the Secretary of the Treasury, with the documents therein referred to.

To the House of Representatives of the United States: I communicate to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, which, with the documents accompanying it, furnishes the information requested by their resolution of…

I lay before the Senate a report ** of the postmaster-General, in further compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 30th December, 1839.

I transmit herewith a report and accompanying documents from the Secretary of War, which furnish the information in relation to that portion of the defenses* of the country intrusted to the charge and direction of the Department of War…

I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of War, accompanied by a letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, indicating the importance of an extension of the authority given by the sixteenth clause of the first section…